Its been quite quiet on the FFXIV front since the Producer letter lol.
Changes to Existing Items and the Monetary System in FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (10/02/2012)
If you had been paying the attention the past several months from the rep comments (plus live letter) more then half this info isn't new. But the stuff is new is both controversial yet probably won't mean a thing come launch date.
On top of arrows getting expunged, lures and tackles and fishing secondary tools (spearfishing) are getting eliminated in 2.0. All equipment with 'favored' is becoming required and they are contemplating changing favored to 'all classes' on most the of the dated gear. (Guess they just want to get rid of redundencies to keep newer plays from getting confused). They are also eliminating throwing weapons as they will be consolidated into a 'free' throwing weapon on the classes instead (thus the lvl 15 throwing ability we saw on Lancer during the demonstrations).
Guild Marks, and crafting manuals will need to be used before the end of 1.0 as they are getting expunged in 2.0 from being a 'thing'.
Key items page is becoming no more but will instead be added to a new function unspecified or become a real inventory item (like chocobo whistle).
No more Linen Gloves of Casting "Red", the dye color will now be shown visually on the icon and in game and no where else. So in ARR it just becomes Linen Gloves of Casting. You can also redye equipment multiple times.
Waist gear will no longer be shown visually and instead will integrated directly into the body piece aesthetics (Cobalt plate belt integrated into Cobalt Cuirass etc.).
Dated gear will become unsellable, unobtainable and will not be added to the games equipment tables in 2.0. They will instead be legacy items you can't trade but can use and wear. This also includes weathered gear (except weathered weapons/tools).
Race specific undergarments are getting consolidated into gender specific only.
No more player bazaars, instead retainers will get 20 slots to sell instead of 10, they will also get 25 more slots of inventory bringing them to 175 while players lose 100 slots from 200 to 100.
Gear attributes are getting an overhaul in 2.0 due to the massive overhauls to the combat system so some of your favorite gear might have stat changes.
HQ items with a +2 and +3 will now become +1 by default.
Dated recipes and holiday recipes will not be available/obtainable in 2.0. On top of all this the spearfishing achievements are getting retired in at the end of 1.0 due to its lack of existence in ARR.
